Transatlantic Liner St. Louis

Authors

Object ID

2014.1.102

Object Name

Postcard, Picture

Files

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Description

Front: Black printed postcard lines. Includes a green postage stamp, handwritten message and black circular hand stamp.Back: Black and white photograph of a large ship.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash: The inability of the Jews on the transatlantic liner St. Louis to disembark in Havana, the United States, or any of the chosen destinations was a great propaganda victory for the Nazis. On the 1939 voyage were 938 passengers, almost all Jews fleeing Nazi Germany. This postcard is of the St. Louis in the early thirties.

Dimensions

3 1/2 x 5 1/2"

Keywords

St. Louis, Jews, Voyage of the Damned, Cruise Liner

Subcollection

St.Louis

Recommended Citation

"Transatlantic Liner St. Louis" (2015). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2014.1.102.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/394